Prerequisites

Due the copyright we are not allowed to provide any game content
from the original Mechanized Assault and Exploration (c) 1996 Interplay

If you do own an original Mechanized Assault & Exploration CD
(c) 1996 Interplay or if you downloaded the original game from
cdosabandonware you can however make use of the tool "resinstaller"
and extract the original gfx automagically from your existing max.res

The tool can be found on our website and easily installs and converts
the needed data for you. Please check the bbs at maxr.org
for more informations.

If you don't own an original maxcd but you want to play with the original look'n'feel you've another chance in downloading Mechanized Assault and eXploration from cdosabandonware.com since you won't find any gamecds from this any more on stores - too old. This version is however lacking some files like videos, music and some sounds.

Warning: Resinstaller will overwrite existing graphics. If you want to
keep existing free graphics for some reasons *backup* the folders fx,
gfx, vehicles and buildings. It's save to copy the files back after the
resinstaller has done it's magic.

Windows

The easiest way is to download the EXE package we provide for Windows. This comes along with an installer taking care of everything. If you don't have an original MAX CD simply close the window when a command like box asks you for paths to the original CD.

If you don't like Installers (and we can understand if you don't) take grab the RAR archive instead. Unzip maxr-x.y.z.rar to a folder of your choise - e.g.
C:\Program Files\

We decided to provide the windows package with a working set of
required SDL-libraries for Win32. If you want to use your own version
from e.g. c:\windows\system32 simply delete the dlls from the game
directory.

If MAXR does not start please check the freshly created maxr.log in the game folder for errors.

Linux

See BUILDING

Troubleshooting

Screenresolution:

It is possible to set the resolution in max.xml however you should keep
in mind that all menus and displays are designed for 640x480. If you
choose a resolution not offered in our settings dialog you may
experience odd graphical problems.

Sound:

If you experience problems with soundquality (especially on WinXP) you
may increase the chunksize in MAX.XML. Default is 1024 and 2205Hz. Next
proper value is 2048 or 4096. If you increasing frequency you have to
increase the chunksize, too. However inceasing frequency has only a
small benefit to the backgroundmusic.

On linux make sure that no soundserver blocks your soundcard from being
accessed if your SDL installation doesn't know how to connect to your
soundserver. This is the case when maxr seems to hang when the splash
finished loading everything and seems to be stucked.

Maps:

The orignal maps are 100% compatible.

Known Bugs:

Many. There is no AI! This is one of the first releases featuring
network games using TCP/IP. Expect and report crashes (with backtrace
if possible) and odd behaivors. Some features that may have worked in
prior releases are disabled. For more known and/or fixed bugs please
visit our bugtracker.